Blog yourself better
September 15th, 2009
You know what ? Every now and then you just have to vent !
And sometimes, you know that it’s not actually going to change things, and you recognise that it may make you look a bit stupid … but you just have to go ahead and do it anyway.
You might well ask, “What’s bought this on ?” … I’ll tell you.
Since the weekend, I have been struggling with a feeling that I was on the slippery slope … You know, a slight tickle in the back of the throat … a slight puffiness around the eyes … a little bit of sniffling … And sure enough, over the last couple of days, each of those symptoms has developed in to that most common of medical conditions, a cold.
Well, I say a cold. I suppose it might still mutate in to a fully fledged dose of swine flu. But I seriously doubt it. But what’s most annoying about it is that this is the first cold that I’ve had for more than 18 months. I suppose I was due to catch one sooner or later !
And yes, I know that I will get better, I know that it will pass and I know that there are a lot of people in the world with a lot worse conditions that makes a common cold look like a walk in the park.
I know these things because I was forcibly reminded of this by a good buddy of mine that I talked to earlier today.
Basically, he kicked my backside … he told me to put my attention elsewhere to help take my mind off things.
“Listen,” he said, “What do you like to do ?”
“Well, you know me,” I said, ” I like to do a lot of things !”
“Yeah, I know, but what absorbs you, what takes up your attention so much that you aren’t aware of the passage of time ?”
I sat and thought about that. After a while, he interrupted my train of thought.
“I know what you’re thinking – you’re thinking that there are several of those things. So let me make this easy for you … of all those things that you like to do, that make time fly, which of those have you not done a lot of recently”.
That was it … the penny dropped.
“Blogging.”
He had to check that he’d heard me correctly.
“Blogging !” I repeated. “OK, I did write a blog entry yesterday, but it was the first for a whole week and I don’t nomally go that long without blogging. And when I finished, I realised that I had missed doing it !”
This time, the silence was on the other end of the line … eventually I heard my friend say “Whatever ! Anyway, I hope you’re feeling better soon.”
“I’m already feeling better !” I said.
I hung up, and turned to my PC. I pulled the keyboard toward me and typed …
Blog yourself better
Categories: General
hehe, nice change of pace, Rog!
Hope your cold gets better.
Cheers,
Rod
Thanks Rod – it’s turned out to be worse than a cold. Time for some more soup !
Roger
Rog,
First, I hope you’re feeling better. I guess I am fortunate, I have not been sick in ages.
And blogging is actually what I enjoy the most as well. Coming up with new ideas and then the actual writing part, that’s what I enjoy and am asborbed by the most.
Take care, and stay well!
Karen
Hi Karen – thanks for your good wishes. I am a LOT better than I was when I first wrote this: still not quite there: one or two nasties lingering. What made it worse was that I had also been very well for a long time, so it’s even more annoying when you finally do succumb !
All the best,
Roger